Benjamin Harrison Quotes

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous…. No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.